How do I remotely access Scheduled Tasks from Windows XP to Windows Server 2003?

fynali iladijas at gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 13:47:15 EDT 2007


On Jul 10, 4:51 am, kj7ny <k... at nakore.com> wrote:
> On Jun 30, 10:55 am, "Roger Upole" <rup... at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > "kj7ny" wrote:
> > > How can I access and manipulateScheduledTasksin Windows using
> > > Python?
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> > > I have a Windows XP workstation running Python 2.4.4 using the
> > > win32all modules to control the windows services on multiple Windows
> > > 2003 servers.  It works great.
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> > > However, I also need to remotely collect the settings for the
> > >scheduledtasks(on those same Windows 2003 servers) and then
> > > manipulate those task settings.
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> > > At the very least, I need to find out which ones are enabled and then
> > > be able to disable and re-enable thosetasksat will.  It would be
> > > better to be able to also detect the account each task runs as so that
> > > I could only disable selectedtasks, but I'll any help I can get.
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> > > Thanks,
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> > Pywin32 comes with a module that lets you do this, win32com.taskscheduler.
> > You can use PyITaskScheduler.SetTargetComputer to accesstaskson remote
> > machines.
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> >            Roger
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> I FINALLY found taskscheduler (with the help of your post).  I found
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>     ...\Python243\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\taskscheduler
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> ... and, there seems to be a /test/ directory with some examples.
> Haven't tried them yet, but they should get me started.
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kj7ny, could you post back here to learn from?

Thanks.

s|a fynali




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